South Korea Plane Crash LIVE: Families of Jeju Air Flight 2216 Victims Mourn | Muan Airport | N18G

South Korea Plane Crash LIVE: Families of Jeju Air Flight 2216 Victims Mourn | Muan Airport | CNBC TV18
Live from airport in the southern South Korean city of Muan where a passenger plane burst into flames on Sunday after it skidded off a runway at an airport and slammed into a concrete fence when its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy, killing at least 174 people, officials said. The National Fire Agency said rescuers raced to pull people from the Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people at the airport in the town of Muan, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) south of Seoul.
A Jeju Air passenger jet carrying 181 people from Bangkok sped off the runway and burst into flames. Two crew were rescued in what was the country’s worst air disaster in decades.
Two crew members were rescued alive from the tail of the burning plane, but over the ensuing hours on Sunday, grim news trickled out to anxious relatives at Muan International Airport, in southwestern South Korea.
By late Sunday, all of the remaining 179 people onboard were confirmed dead, making the crash of the plane — flown by the popular low-cost carrier Jeju Air — the worst aviation disaster involving a South Korean airline in nearly three decades and the worst ever on South Korean soil.
Sunday’s crash was the deadliest worldwide since that of Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018, when all 189 people on board died as the plane plunged into the Java Sea, according to reports from the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency.


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